Blog

Thanks for visiting the Godrej India Culture Lab blog. Here, we’ll be putting up some of our own thoughts, as well as the opinions from some of our lab participants – the thinkers, performers, designers, businesspeople, not-for-profit folks that we continuously cross-pollinate through our activities. We hope that reading these blog posts will point you to some interesting ideas about the contemporary India that we live in, as well as inspire you to start new conversations with those in your own lives.

Leadership Programme fellows

14 June 2018

We invited four leading minds in activism and culture - Zainab Patel, Nikhil Taneja, Ritesh Uttamchandani, Supriya Nair - to deliver a masterclass in their fields. These lectures were a part of curriculum for the Godrej India Culture Lab Leadership Programme - a one-month intership at the Culture Lab. The programme is designed to give students an insider's look of the cultural industry in the country to raise cultural leaders of tomorrow.

Aayush Chaturvedi

14 June 2018

Aayush Chaturvedi shot this photo essay during a visit to the galleries in Colaba. Aayush is a part of the Godrej India Culture Lab Leadership Programme - a one month internship which is designed to give students an insider's look of the cultural industry in the country to raise cultural leaders of tomorrow.

Team Culture Lab

9 May 2018

Ahead of our main event, Freedom To Be Flawed: Awkward Conversations Around Disability, India's first female disabled comedian, and disability and gender rights activist Nidhi Goyal joined us for a fearless AMA on Twitter.

Team Culture Lab

9 May 2018

We hosted Freedom to be Flawed – Awkward Conversations around Disability, an event that focused on access and inclusion for people with disabilities. It was our first event putting the spotlight on disability it’s then that we realized that there was so much more we could do to make our events more inclusive. We’ve had people on wheelchairs and people with other disabilities coming for our events before. In fact some of them have come up to us and thanked us for the experience they have had at a Culture Lab event. But it was not enough. So, here are few things we learnt:

Team Culture Lab

8 May 2018

We had a discussion on access and inclusion at our Freedom to be Flawed - Awkward Conversations around Disability. The speakers are all in some way making an impact on getting able-bodied people to interact with people with disabilities.

Sonali Gupta

9 April 2018

Mental health practitioner and curator of our Why We Need To Talk About Mental Health NOW event, Sonali Gupta has put together a resource list of books that one must read to take care of our mental health. These books tackle a variety of issues from finding meaning in life to finding love.

Harsh Vora

9 April 2018

As part of a series of pre-meetings before we kickstart the Leadership Programme this summer, our Leadership Programme fellows attended the book launch of 'Dreamers - How Young Indians Are Changing Their World' by Snigdha Poonam, after which they got together and discussed their ideas in response to a question we asked them five months ago- 'What change would you like to see in Mumbai's culture?' Leadership fellow Harsh Vora writes about how they chose the final idea they would work on with us as our very first Leadership Programme Class!